Company e-mail - Part 1

Havin a company email ID - urname@urcompanyname.com was which i had always dreamt of when i was in college. I had my Yahoo / Hotmail / Gmail / Rediffmail / Indiatimes / Sify... (the list is endless & countless) but havin @companyname.com was sumthng like a “Jhaanki-mandap”

Immediately aftr joinin STPL Systems as a trainee, I discovered that email was sumthng special. I didn't touch the email application for a week.

Surbhi laughed at me one day. "Kya??? U don knw how to check ur email?" I wanted 2 yell at myself; but ended up murmuring.. “Bhen di takki.. saali”.. Anyhow that was insulting… Wht cud b more insulting to a boy than getin a remark like this frm the most beautiful girl of the batch…

I was determined to xplore email. With shaky hands I double clicked on the icon 'Lotus CC-mail' half expectin a loud explosion. It didn't explode. It just asked me for my password.

I called up the CCD (Computers & Communications Dept.)
"Hello CCD" a sweet voice answered.
I took a deep breath and told her tht sumthng had gone terribly wrong with my PC.
"It is askin me to supply sum password" I told her.
There was absolute silence for 2 minutes frm the other side.
Then the sweet voice boomed again, "Enter ur password."
"Wht the hell is my password?"
"How do I know?"
"I don know either."
"OK… U have never used mail before?"
"I have…. I have used mail all my life .. Since I was a kid."
"Excuse me? Did u say u used to mail when u were a kid?"
"Yep! My grandmother used to forward me jokes and other stuff."
"Ur grandmother??"
"Yep! Such a nice lady she'd been…. Even when she was eighty years old she could find time to send me jokes."
"Wait... you mean to say your eighty year old grandmother could use this mail application?"
“Yes!!! Y not?
"Errrr.. Baiju!!!"
"Yes Vaishali"
"I think we need to talk"
"What do u think we r doin now?"
"We are gibbering Baiju.. That's what we r doin."
"What do u mean?"
"Wait a second."
A minute later she appeared in front of my desk. Half an hour later I stared into her eyes with hero worship.. err... heroine worship.
"You are great Vaishali."
"Nope I am not Baiju."
"No no .. ur great.. u set up my email. That is a great thing to do."
"Nope Baiju, I just reset ur password and entered it. I did nothing else."
"Where did u learn all these things Vaishali?"
She looked out frm the 4th floor window. Then she looked at the walls. And then she looked down at the concrete basement. Then she shook her head.
"STPL Systems taught me all these things Baiju." She said slowly.
"Oh" I said, "Did they?"
"Yep they did."
"Then why are they not teaching those things to me?"
She looked at the walls once again and walked up to it. "You don need to know those things Baiju. I am here to help u guys only."
"But u won't b there with me thru-out my life Vaishali"
"Excuse me?"
"Thanks for the help Vaishali."
"Baiju"
"Yep Vaishali"
"Who interviewed u during ur recruitment?"
"Chandragupth Mourya…"
"Oh! I c."
"What?"
"Nothing"
"I smell fish"
"Then… Cook it Baiju."
With that she was gone….